Printing chart



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UNITED" STATES WALLACE W. GYLLENBERG, DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

rnmrme CHART.

Application filed September 12, 1927. Seria1 .No.'218,910.

My invention relates to for printing. i

The object is to provide a chart for the use of a printer, author, advertising or layout man, etc. whereby one may readily ascertain the amount of space required to print a given amount of typewritten matter in a given style and point of type or whereby one having a given amount of space available for printing and a given quantity of typewritten matter to be printed may readily and quickly ascertain the style and point of type best suited for the purpose.

Heretotore this has been accomplished generally through what might be termed a cut and try method of procedure involving more or less uncertainty and inaccuracy. The material to be printed was measured, the available space was ascertained and then, working with the known number of average characters, the result was sought. Such a method was unsatisfactory. It was laborious, slow and in accurate. Printing characters vary in width in the same style and point of type and there is, of course, a wide variation between styles and points of type.

an improved chart My improved chart materially facilitatesthe performance of this work and lends itself to the accomplishment thereof with a minimum amount of labor and in a minimum amount of time.

The various meritorious features, advantages and objects of my invention will more fully appear from the following description 01" the embodiment illustrated in the accom-l panyiug drawing and defined 1n the appended claims. I v i The figure of the drawing is afront elevation of a chart embodying my invention.

My improved chart has a faceupon which vertical parallel lines indicate a. pica chart 6 in width, there being six pica lines to the inch. At the top and bottom these pica lines are numbered.

I have arranged printed matter upon this chart extending there across, which printed matter is assembled in groups, each group being in a particular style of type. Reading from top to bottomtlie groups represent the following styles oftypez] Caslon Old Style,

Modern, Bookman, GoudyBold and Caslon Bold. These groups constitute merely a limited number of the styles of type employed in printing and a Working embodiment of my invention would preferably comprise all the be seen'that there are SiXty characters in the styles of type commonly used byprinters in the trade.

Each group comprises successive lines of type in different point sizes. For example, the first group, Caslon Old Style, is the up pcrmost line'printed in six point type and the otherlines in the group, reading from top to bottom, are printed in 8, 10, 12, 14:, and 18 point type respectively. The other groups with their respective lines of type are likewise similarly arranged. In my chart adapted for use the different group styles of type would, of course, contain lines representative of the several point sizes.

It will be seen that each line in each group has associated therewith numerals, which numerals are here shown arranged at the pica intervals underneath the line. These numerals indicate the average number ofprinting characters of such style and point of type in a line of the pica length indicated by the numeral. For example, the six point line in the first group, Caslon Old Style, carries the numeral 150 at the end of the line which indicates that thereare 150 characters in'an average six inch line of this style and point of type, a character being a letter or space interval. "This does not mean that necessarily there are 150 characters in this particular line there set up, as printing type varies in width, but that there are 150 charactersin an average line. This number has been arrived at by a series of computations based upon an examination of a largeamount of printed matter. The other numerals underlying the same line at dilierent intervals indicate the number of characters appearing in an average line'of such l'ength.

At the bottom of the chart I have shown two lines of typewritten matter, the upper line being elite type and the lower line in pica type. These two linesrepresent the two well known varieties of typewriter type.

Typewriter type does not vary in Width and the numerals which are associated with these lines indicate the number of characters in a, line of typewriter type of the particular Va riety indicated ot-the length shown and itjwill siX inch line of pica typewriter type andseventy-two characters in the same length line of elite typewriter type.

The chart is usable. in many ways. If a person has a quantity of typewritten material which itis desired to set up in a given style and pointof printing type, it is readily possible to ascertain the required space by placing aline of the typewritten material to be printed underneath the typewritten line on the chart of the. same kind of typewriter type and it an average line of the typewritten material to be printed terminates at the nu ineral on the chart and it it is desired to print this matter in sin: point Caslon Bold type, it would incidentally appear that a two inch space would be required to print this line in this style and point of type.

0n the other hand, it here were a given amount of space available for printing and a given quantity of typewritten material to be printed, it would be as easily possible to ascertain the style and point of type best adaptable tor employment-to print such typewritten. material to fill the available space.

Furthermore, one might desire to have the printed matter arranged in aeolumn of a ditlierent length, say three inches,in a differstyle and point of type, for example, Modern eight point, in which event the chart would indicate that an average line would contain titty-seven characters. The typewriter might then be set to run littyseven characters to the line in which case the numher of lines of typewritten matter would equal approximately the number of lines of printed matter.

li hat I claim is: r

l. a. chart tor printing having on its face a plurality of parallel vertical lines equally spaced apart according to a determined interval, ..tucccssive lines of printed matter arranged thereacross, each line of printed matter being in a given point and style of type, lip ai-isociated with each line of printed mat c where traversed by said vertical lines indi catiiiig the number of printed characters of "h point and style of typein an average or portion thereof of such length and of a point and style ottype; two lines cyqaemr ..ten matter, one elit and the other likewise arranged on such chart and iaving associated with each line of typewritten matter where traversed by said vertical lines, figures indicating the number of characters such variety of typewriter type in line or portion thereof of that length.

A ch rt for printing having. on its face a plurality of parallel defined spaces of unitorm width, printed matter of a given style type arranged transversely over the spaces in recessive lines each line. being in a given p t ott type, figures associated with each line of printed matter at determined intervals indicating the number or characters in an average line oi" printed matter of such point and style of type of the length indicated, and a line ol typewritten matter arranged on such chart having figures associated therewith at the same determined intervals indicating the n umber of characters in a line of typewritten 'matter cl such kind of the same length.

3. A chart tor printing having arranged on itstace successive lines of printed matter different iorm and size of type, numerals associated with each line at determined intervals indicating the number oat printed characters .in such style and point of type in an average line of printed matter of the length 01* the interval indicated by the nui ral, said chart also having arranged on its luCO a lineot' typewritten matter of a deter-- mined kind and associated therewith at the same. determined intervals, numerals indicating the number of characters of such kind oi? typewriter type in an average lineot the length of the interval indicatedby the nuineral.

A chart for printing having arranged oi'i its face a plurality of sets of characters rcpret-xenting dillerent styles and points of printing type and a numeral associated with the type of each style and point indicating the number of characters of such 'styleand point in an. average lineoii a given length.

5. A chart for printing having arranged on its face a plurality of groups of printed characters, each group representing a diliferent style of p inting type and including printed characters in such style arranged in the various point sizes, and a numeral associated with the characters of each point size in each. style group indicating the number 0t characters of such point and style in an average line thereof in a given pica length.

'6. A chart tor printing having arranged on its face a plurality of groups of printed characters, each group representing a different style of printing *pc and including successive lines of printed characters in such style arranged in the various point sizes, a different size in each line and a numeral associated with each line in each group indicating the number ct characters oi such point and style in'an' average line thereot of a given pica length, said chart also provided with two groups 0:5? typewrittn characters representii g the two varieties of typewriter type, each group having associated therewith a numeral indicating the number of typewritten characters o'l? such variety in a pica line of thesaine length. 1

in testimony whereof, I, W'ALLAGE W. GYL- raiivnnneysign this specification.

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